tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71249870906964515272011-07-30T23:40:22.858-07:00A place to promote the students and faculty who do science at Chicago State UniversityBoBnoreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-81516931840567993742010-04-11T18:39:00.000-07:002010-04-11T18:39:27.077-07:00

I've been a bit busy for the past three weeks, and am only now getting the photos from our visit to San Francisco off my camera.  In late March, a group of students and faculty from the Chemistry department attended the National American Chemical Society meeting.  I think this year we might have had the largest group ever from CSU to attend a national meeting, with 5 students giving poster

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-72524374979863302802010-03-10T15:44:00.000-08:002010-03-10T15:44:46.172-08:00

In February, the Chicago State Group made the trip from the snow and cold of Chicago to the snow and cold of Washington, DC to attend the 2010 Joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers.  Six students, and two faculty members from CSU attended the meeting and presented their work in SPS Outreach (Erica), Nuclear High Energy Physics (Neli and

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-5456834514082024192010-02-11T18:45:00.000-08:002010-02-11T18:45:31.223-08:00

This past Friday, Quiana Moore ('09) participated in CIMBY's Environmental Leadership Workshop.  CIMBY (Calumet Is My Back Yard) is a result of community advocacy in the late 1990's that promoted the use of extracurricular programming to increase awareness of and responsibility for the fragile beauty of the Calumet area.  Today, CIMBY combines leadership training, ecology, and stewardship into

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-41361021562275255102009-12-09T11:37:00.000-08:002009-12-09T11:37:35.727-08:00

This semester, the Inorganic Chemistry students were required to memorize the periodic table.  Why, one might ask?  Well because those who could would receive the rights to brag about their skills at memorizing the periodic table.  Oh and there was a prize. Without further ado, the Master of the Periodic Table for fall of 2009 was awarded to Laurence Quinn.  In honor of his noble work, Laurence

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-4840699687319629582009-12-04T11:26:00.000-08:002009-12-04T11:26:44.289-08:00

Dr. Mardis recently published a review article with her Argonne National Laboratory colleague, David Tiede, in the journal Photosynthesis Research.  The paper describes their use of the Advanced Photon Source at ANL to perform X-ray scattering experiments in solution.  Like X-ray crystallography, the technique is used to determine molecular structure.  The figure below, taken from their paper,

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-66148423882190137872009-11-10T10:34:00.000-08:002009-11-10T10:34:02.161-08:00

Advising and Registration season is upon us. Please log-in to CSUchemadvising.ClickBook.net to make an advising appointment. No door sign-up sheets will be used.

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-82319603543508845122009-10-21T19:23:00.000-07:002009-10-21T19:23:57.837-07:00

This post was submitted by David Kanis. Three students from the Department of Chemistry and Physics joined two dozen CSU students and thousands of students from campuses across the State to lobby the State to restore MAP (Monetary Assistance Program) for the spring semester.  Rachel Hawkins (chemistry), Bryant Ukaigwe (chemistry), and Christopher McDaniel (chemistry) joined Dr. Kanis in the

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-41609944821710781592009-10-15T18:38:00.000-07:002009-10-15T18:38:45.383-07:00

With a dozen Inorganic Chemistry exams to grade, laboratory experiments to prepare, committee meeting minutes to distribute and galley proofs still waiting for "proofing" on my desk, my response to Mark Bouman's invitation to join his Science and Society class on a field trip to the Indiana Dunes was fairly obvious. Yes! Dr. Tim Bell from the Biology department lead us on a guided tour of the

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-29625981717385225362009-10-11T12:28:00.000-07:002009-10-11T12:28:38.664-07:00

This weekend we mourned the loss of one of our students, Demetrius Watson, who was shot to death October 4th.  I knew Demetrius through his work with Dr. Mardis on our solar cell research.  Ironically, discussion of another tragic death came across my desk this weekend in the form of an editorial and letters to the editor in the latest issue of C&E News.  Sheri Sangji, a 23-year old research

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-67117727687476652162009-10-05T19:03:00.000-07:002009-10-05T19:03:05.277-07:00

On Thursday and Friday of last week, the Center for Alternative Energy Technology held its third annual Alternative Energy Symposium.  There were 19 oral presentations and about 10 posters.  Several CSU faculty spoke about some of the research activities currently underway at Chicago State.  Drs. Mardis, Rivas and LeSuer summarized some of the solar cell research we've been working on over the

BoBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124987090696451527.post-31226824032308824162009-10-03T06:22:00.000-07:002009-10-03T06:22:45.187-07:00

If this is the only post you see on the page, then you are one of the lucky few students who were coerced, ordered, or forced to visit (and follow) this blog.  You see, a few of the faculty started thinking about all the activities that go on in the Chemistry and Physics (CAP) department, and how little of it gets out to the public.  We started brainstorming and came up with a few ideas on how we

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